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Birth of an Industry : Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation /

Nicholas Sammond describes how popular early American cartoon characters were derived from blackface minstrelsy. He charts the industrialization of animation in the early twentieth century, its representation in the cartoons themselves, and how important blackface minstrels were to that performance,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sammond, Nicholas, 1960- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : biting the invisible hand
  • Performance
  • Labor
  • Space
  • Race
  • Conclusion : the "new" blackface.